From 2013 to 2021, the number of children in Alaska who completed the childhood series of vaccinations decreased from about 60% to about 46%. Dr. Anne Zink weighs in on possible reasons why. Take a listen:
Fewer Alaska children are getting common vaccinations for debilitating and wildly contagious illnesses like polio, which,State health data show that from 2013 to 2021, the number of children in Alaska who completed the childhood series of vaccinations decreased from about 60% to about 46%, with a steeper drop off starting in 2020, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink says that concerns her. And while Zink says she thinks the pandemic is a factor, she doesn’t point directly to some Americans’ distrust of COVID vaccines as an explanation for the declining rates of other vaccinations.: Many people are trying to answer that question from numerous angles. Particularly, in the national data that I’ve seen, the reason that people choose to not get vaccinated are multifactorial, and there’s not a single reason.
But I think it’s important to remember that vaccines are probably the safest thing that we do in medicine, and they’re safer than most over-the-counter medications. I have much more concern about, you know, people taking ibuprofen daily than vaccination. You know, in Alaska, we winterize we get ready for the winter as it comes. And as we winterize, we should be also considering immunizing. So winterize and immunize. Make sure that you’re getting your booster shots.
And so we have an opportunity as a state right now to increase our vaccine rates so that we aren’t seeing our first case of polio in the state or we aren’t having a measles outbreak or mumps outbreak in the state, or transferring more kids from, you know, a village because of bad pertussis. Our health care capacity right now is really full. I mean, our hospitals are incredibly full right now, just because there’s a lot of people out doing a lot of different things.
I mean, diseases like polio, the majority of cases are asymptomatic, and so it spreads person to person asymptomatically until someone ends up paralyzed.
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